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Self-Employment Can Be a Good Option
For Young Entrepreneurs With a Good Idea

By

Tim Townsend Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated June 18, 2000 12:01 a.m. ET

Looking for ways to make money this summer? Maybe you should consider becoming your own boss.

It's not as strange as it sounds. Plenty of kids as young as nine years old have started businesses. Take Mallory Gollick, now 13, who formed her own coffee-importing business, called Jungle Beans, four years ago in Denver.